Interesting episode…until you realize they never once consider the ramifications of the N-word. It’s a lot more cut & dry than the terms that do get covered here — and A LOT harder to defend in the same contexts. Maybe that’s why they left it out? Because it’s too indefensible?

Spoiler alert: Episode focuses on a theory that the world is actually barely changing at all these days — that things are changing too slowly, not too quickly, and that’s the root of many of our troubles. File this away in “not sure I believe it yet, but want to hear more.”

In the previous episode — which is about the descendants of slaved once owned by Georgetown University, who were sold to a Southern plantation in order to keep the school float — I had some serious issues with Georgetown’s plan to offer “semi-legacy status” to the teenage descendants applying to the school today as a apologetic gesture. It felt like, well, an empty gesture, especially considering how crucial those slaves were to the school’s very existence. This episode digs into an entirely different way to compensate the descendants…Reparations. And, boy, is it a complex issue. Planet Money does a pretty good laying out all the complexities.

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